LET ME STEAL THIS MOMENT FROM YOU NOW

My New Roof, Unassembled Format

At the end of winter a mighty wind blew (or something) and took a fair amount of the roof with it, so — oh, yay — we get to have a new roof, and today is the day it gets to be had. The roofers were here yesterday to drop all off the new shingles and such, and within the hour they will be here to apply them to the house, which occassion all manner of hammering and banging and tearing and shredding and sloths and fruit bats and breakfast cereals and so on. Which means a) no real chance for me to get any work done if it involves trying to think for more than one-and-a-half seconds in a row b) crazy insane dog going mad at all the thumping and bumping. Which of course brings us back to point a).

In short, today will be an excellent day to listen really loud music and not think at all. And so, this is my plan for the day. So if you call today, there’s a good chance our entire conversation will be thumps and bangs and me saying to you “WHAT?!? Hey, I can’t hear you, I’m listening to Slayer.” Mmmm… Slayer. I’m just warning you ahead of time, is all. Maybe just e-mail today.

I had to have a new roof put on during the Christmas holidays that lasted over New Year’s. It was so lovely to see old roofing stuff with the navity set on the front lawn!!! Along with my plastic snowmen. After about a month everything was finished. The roof looks great now. In about six weeks another hurricane season starts. I hope it is a very quite one. Come on El Nino do your stuff!!!

Wait, didn’t we do this last year? Something about people walking across your roof, dropping things, hammering things, the fruit bats and breakfast cereals. Yes, I think I remember this. And you weren’t able to get work done then, either. You’re starting to reuse excuses, Scalzi. I think your editors no longer believe that Kodi ate your work (especially after the whole, “I don’t have a printer” thing) and you’re trying to come up with something else.

I had my roof done as well yesterday. Full teardown, new decking on half of it, ice barrier, felt, shingles and ridge venting. From start to finish, 5 hours. Granted, it’s a small house, but they worked fast, didn’t cut any corners and did a great job on it. The new roof looks great.

rys@21 – there is a roofing contractor here in Atlanta that uses a dalmation in their commercials…dog drives up in the company truck, is met at the door by homemaker, introduces self – Roof Roof – the tag line is something about call them at 1-800 (then the dog barks)roofroof!